Jackie Collin’s beloved character Lucky Santangelo is coming to the big screen. As Deadline reports, the 10-novel series has been acquired by Universal Pictures with the hope of making a trilogy based on the various books.
Santangelo is “the gorgeous daughter of Italian American gangster, Gino, patriarch of a crime family that originated in the 1920s.”
Monumental Pictures’ Debra Hayward and Alison Owen approached Collins’ three daughters, Tiffany Lerman Sacks, Rory Green, and Tracy Lerman, about the deal. The trio of are on board as serve as executive producers. Moira Buffini (“Jane Eyre”) will adapt the series, and Working Title US President Liza Chasin will also executive produce the series. Let’s hope that a woman is hired to direct.
“We are reclaiming Jackie Collins for a new generation of women,” Owen said. “Lucky has none of the neuroses or angst of modern day literary heroines. She is her own woman.”
“We are thrilled to be bringing our mother’s most iconic and dynamic character to the big screen,” said Collins’ daughters in a statement. “With Alison and Debra’s track record of female driven stories, we consider them to be the perfect producers, and now to be the perfect time for a kick ass female heroine to take center stage in Hollywood.”
Collins passed away in 2015. Lucky Santangelo was one of her most popular characters.
